CAEE Photography Competition
Winners!
1st Place: Reflections, Emily Pace (16)
2nd Place: Two Roads Diverged, Joe Eichstaedt (8)
3rd Place: Top of the Morning, Leslie McCroddan (3)
Architectural engineers tend to be known as the more artistically inclined engineering major. However, after getting to know more people across the CAEE school, we know this art inclination isn’t just limited to ArchE’s. This year, AEI opened the competition for all of the CAEE department!
Students, faculty, and staff submitted a photo they believe best encompasses either architectural, civil, or environmental engineering throughout Austin, Texas.
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PCL
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Sunrise over Pickle Research Campus
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Tex-Mex
This picture is a clear shot if the Mexican flag with the Texas capital in the background. It represents the tejano culture.
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Top of the Morning,
Bill & Melinda Gates Computer Science Complex
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WORK: Women work all the time. Men have to put up signs when they work. (Taken at intersection of San Jacinto Blvd and Duval St in 2016)
WORK: Women work all the time. Men have to put up signs when they work. (Taken at intersection of San Jacinto Blvd and Duval St in 2016)
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Warped Wood,
Interior of fareground food hall.
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Golden Hour
This photo was taken by chance when I found myself on a rooftop bar for a SXSW concert. I noticed how the sunlight peeked through the translucent glass at the top of the Frost Bank Tower and thought it made a stunning image and perfect opportunity to enter into the competition.
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Two Roads Diverged
This photo was taken from the Pfluger Pedestrian Bridge facing towards downtown Austin. The Bridge's split as well as the cluster of residential high-rises appear to align with one another as the sun sets over the city.
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Best Friends
The sun sets on two tower cranes in a construction site
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Rising High Rises
This is a view of the power plant against Austin's growing skyscrapers, including it's newest and tallest addition: The Independent. Movement up the photo represents the advancement of engineering technology (from the natural environment on the bottom, to the re-purposed power plant, to the towering skyscrapers). The photo captures our desire to build upward, the taller structures almost blending into the blue sky behind them.
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The First Step to Cleaning Water Photo of the clarifier at Austin's water treatment plant #4. The clarifier is one of the first things that water goes through in the purifying process.
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The Glory of Speedway
All the hidden secrets are revealed once you look up
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A BeaUTiful evening beckons
View from ECJ of UT Austin buildings and the Clock Knot on Dean Keaton
The Reality of Austin Construction Even as one project finishes, there are more projects just starting.
Always Growing
A look at the sunset and Vaughn construction site across from the intramural fields.
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Reflections
Caught the evening sun bouncing reflections off the EER's windows and atrium.
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Heart Hospital of Austin
Vines growing on side of building
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Coming Home
An image of the 360 bridge with cars coming across it during sunset.
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Modern Science
Everything about this building was possible through science. The architecture, the construction, and even the resident classes within the building are science.
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Campus at Twilight
I shot this from the top floor study room in EER. Views like this keep me calm and happy while studying.
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Morning Frost
A photo of sunrise over Austin from the top of Frost Tower, highlighting the juxtaposition of new and old structures
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Evening Rush on the Pennybacker Bridge
The nexus of civil, architectural, and environmental engineering is difficult to describe and even more difficult to find in everyday life. Yet look no further than the Pennybacker Bridge, which carries the Capital of Texas Highway across Lake Austin to capture all three. An iconic landmark representing our city, the Pennybacker carries a scenic, yet heavily used roadway through weathering steel arches as it traverses the rolling Texas Hill Country. The bridge is not only a dazzling feat of Austin architectural engineering, but also forms a critical link in our city's congested roadway network - one which civil engineers strive to improve on a daily basis. In doing so, they face the challenges that arise from our natural barriers such as Lake Austin and other lakes on the Colorado River. These lakes result from essential environmental engineering projects, which not only protect our environment, but improve life for all those that call our city home.
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Dean Keeton at Sunset
The height of a February sunset taken from the ECJ/ETC bridge.
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Flowers blooming outside the engineering buildings
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Knot an Ordinary Picture
Capturing the architectural treasures that lie on the University of Texas campus along Dean Keaton
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UT Tower
The tower during the night is illuminated by its own lights, revealing its magnificent structure that stands out in the city of Austin.
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Facade
This photograph aims to highlight a variety of unique elements on the eastern face of the Central Austin Public Library. Located at the intersection of the Colorado River and Shoal Creek, this structure serves as a corridor between Shoal Beach Park and Lady Bird Lake by combining a New Formalist architectural style (dominant features being Lueders limestone and perforated corrugated aluminum panels) with a remarkable terraced urban landscape. Additional features such as the photovoltaic roof, water reclamation system, and large windows contribute to the building’s LEED Platinum rating and overall sustainability. All design and material choices work together to create a structure that centralizes social interactions and epitomizes what makes the city of Austin so unique.
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Unbalance
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A Wedge of Lines
The ceiling windows in the ECJ foyer provide great lighting for the study tables below.
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Night Lights
Surrounded by a sea of speckled lights, the Texas Capitol stands fully illuminated.
